Benderman C.O. Defense Funds Pass Half-Way Point for Retaining Private Counsel March 2005
Urgent financial support required
A Matter of Conscience 8 February 2005
Why must it be considered honorable to train young men and women to look through the sights of a high-powered rifle and to kill another human being from 300 meters away?
Catching Flack 8 February 2005
What's gone wrong when war is glorified, and fighting for peace is seen as cowardly?
Kevin Benderman on trial 7 February 2005
He says he has chosen to follow his conscience, not his commanders.
Sergeant Kevin Benderman charged 19 January 2005
The Army today charged Sergeant Benderman for his refusal to re-deploy sparkling a worldwide media feeding-frenzy and elicited condemnation of Bush.
Why I refused a 2nd deployment to Iraq 12 January 2005
These are the chronological events that led me to conclude that I had no other choice than to refuse the deployment order to Iraq.
We Have Lost Our Way in Iraq 3 January 2005
I did not join the army to kill women, children, and old men.
Letters from Monica Benderman 31 December 2004
"No soldier is in Iraq by his own doing."
"I just got back from the hospital visiting 2 soldiers"
Letter to George Bush 20 November 2004
"I did receive orders from the commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.